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At least 22 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded as Israel launched fresh airstrikes on central Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry has said.
The first strike on Thursday evening appeared to target an eight-story apartment block in Ras al-Nabaa, with witnesses reporting continued explosions within the building as a large emergency response rushed to the scene.
The second strike, in the area of Burj Abi Haidar, is reported to have collapsed an entire building. It was later seen engulfed in flames.
It came as the United Nations’s peacekeeping mission accused Israel of “deliberately” firing at the agency’s positions as two of its staff were injured after an Israeli tank shot at a watchtower in southern Lebanon.
A separate UN inquiry also found that Israel’s “relentless and deliberate attacks” on the health system in Gaza amounted to the crime against humanity of extermination, accusing Israeli forces of deliberately killing and torturing medical personnel, targeting medical vehicles and restricting permits for patients to leave the Gaza strip.
